Comments on: London Al-Quds March: Islamists Slander and Threaten Peter Tatchell http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/london-al-quds-march-islamists-slander-and-threaten-peter-tatchell/ An informal network of international GLBT grassroots activists working to make the world a safer place for GLBT people, and for full GLBT equality in all aspects of legal and social life... Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:46:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MITNAGED http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/london-al-quds-march-islamists-slander-and-threaten-peter-tatchell/#comment-2154 MITNAGED Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:45:02 +0000 http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/london-al-quds-march-islamists-slander-and-threaten-peter-tatchell/#comment-2154 Why is it that Muslims/Islamists are allowed to slander and offend as they see fit whilst the authorities look the other way and yet they are quick to take offence, apparently at thin air, and to resort to the law to try, and sometimes succeed, in stifling any criticism of their views and behaviour? And what is this "We are all Hezbolla now" rubbish? How dare they speak for anyone else but their misguided selves? Has not the government banned Hezbolla here? Has anyone been arrested for the glorification of terrorism that the parading of those banners evidences? Peter Tatchell - there will be a Palestine and a free one when the psychopathic Palestinian government is deposed and the Palestinian are given the freedom to experience a lasting peace with their neighbour and benefit from the material and other benefits that this will bring. The Palestinian people are held captive by their government and the rest of the Arab world which is content to use their plight - which it deliberately exacerbates and parades in the media - to score propaganda points against Israel and the same media rarely bothers to examine both sides of the story. The occupation is used as an excuse for all sorts of barbaric behaviour by Hamas. Invariably forgotten is that the occupation came about as the result of unprovoked attacks on Israel - a war which the Arab nations lost. This occupation, so often trotted out as an excuse for the subsequent violence against Israeli Jews, is merely an excuse for the continuing of that very same violence as had been taking place by Arab on Jew since there was a Jewish presence in the area, especially since 1918. Why is it that Muslims/Islamists are allowed to slander and offend as they see fit whilst the authorities look the other way and yet they are quick to take offence, apparently at thin air, and to resort to the law to try, and sometimes succeed, in stifling any criticism of their views and behaviour?

And what is this “We are all Hezbolla now” rubbish? How dare they speak for anyone else but their misguided selves? Has not the government banned Hezbolla here? Has anyone been arrested for the glorification of terrorism that the parading of those banners evidences?

Peter Tatchell – there will be a Palestine and a free one when the psychopathic Palestinian government is deposed and the Palestinian are given the freedom to experience a lasting peace with their neighbour and benefit from the material and other benefits that this will bring.

The Palestinian people are held captive by their government and the rest of the Arab world which is content to use their plight – which it deliberately exacerbates and parades in the media – to score propaganda points against Israel and the same media rarely bothers to examine both sides of the story.

The occupation is used as an excuse for all sorts of barbaric behaviour by Hamas. Invariably forgotten is that the occupation came about as the result of unprovoked attacks on Israel – a war which the Arab nations lost. This occupation, so often trotted out as an excuse for the subsequent violence against Israeli Jews, is merely an excuse for the continuing of that very same violence as had been taking place by Arab on Jew since there was a Jewish presence in the area, especially since 1918.

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